i think the concessionaire, he is from new mexico. how much control will he have here? i think it is a crime. >> let me make an observation. this will not be a souvenir shop. this matter has been before the commission to put a request for proposal out. those proposals have come back. the issue was heard about the competing proposals and who was selected. tonight's issue is the terms of the lease of that vendor that was selected. this is not a surprise or the first time it has been here. the idea that it would make mearwoods is incorrect. it is not a souvenir shop. i think the staff description was fairly accurate about it. i am not taking issue with what you say. i would be equally concerned if i thought it was going to end up that way. >> [inaudible] >> well, i am happy to keep the sentiments of that with the staff that it does not happen. the start to happen, come back and see me. do you want to comment on that? thanks. >> thank you for that opportunity. i forgot to mention it in my presen>> the size and scope of e retail offerings are all subject to approval. there i

they're going to bring boats from carlsbad, new mexico, up here? that does not make sense. i know the whole thing is a cafe and increased revenue, but i heard a screaming and shouting match of the concessionaire's saying it would each offer more money. it is interesting that that was not taken up. anyway, thank you. and the next speaker, please. -- >> next speaker, please? >> hi, my name is gil. i worked as a registered nurse in san francisco. i have raised four children. i have been in the general area since age 50, and i think you are missing a very important point. u.n. not really part of the community here. -- you are not really part of the community here. the community is not the boat house. the committee to me, architecturally, it is not particularly attractive to me, but that is not the point. the point is that the people who work there create an atmosphere for the elderly people there, and i am speaking on their behalf because they cannot wait. 25 people went home. they come not to spend not a lot of money at a cafe. i know this is unique, but what you are doing, ba

. >> reporter: out in the desert, near taos, new mexico, they're building house hos. >> you hear that dull, yet firm thud. >> reporter: out of garbage. >> this is the most common tire around here. 235-r 75-15. >> reporter: using tires with dilt, old appliances and plastic bottles, mike reynolds is turning our trash into solar powered, self-sustaining, energy efficient homes. >> it's a machine. not a house. and it's a machine that involves biology and physics so that people cannot need the municipal utilities. >> reporter: these earth ships, as he calls them, are off the grid wonders of physics. angled south to catch the suns rays through solar panels on the roof -- >> you have to orient it right, admit the sun in the winter because it is low, and rock it in the summer because its high. >> reporter: no heat or air conditioning required. earth ships hover at about 70 degrees year round. >> the total utility bill of this house would be $100 a year to run the propane for the cook stove. and that's $100 per year, total, power, water, sewage. >> reporter: they're also built with a lot of sw

but earth ships are landing from new mexico to the netherlands. even providing a useful way to recycle rubble in earthquake-ravaged haiti. >> we're addressing the garbage issue. we're addressing the water issue. we're addressing the energy issue. we're addressing the heat and cooling. we're addressing housing. and we're addressing food. all of the things that people need, we're addressing them. >> reporter: one earth ship at a time. this is vicki mabrey in taos, new mexico. >> that is a fascinating story. our producers brought up a very good point. who collects all the stuff it takes to build an earth ship? i can't see joe blow going out to a landfill -- >> i see who's collecting. we've got to get to work. we look like the ghostbusters, actually. a dual purpose. >> if this tv thing doesn't work out, we look good out there. >> you know what else i wondered, the smell. right? >> shouldn't they clean the stuff off? but hey, man, i don't know. i love the concept -- >> men at work, buddy. say that right now. >> hardest-working men overnight. >> getting

then the snow is reaching as far south as new mexico and arizona today. that could certainly delay some travel conditions. i do expect dangerous driving conditions as well. for the southeastern corner, temperatures easing here. the warm southerly wins helping to produce thunderstorms down in the south, texas, mississippi, as well as louisiana. we've got 24 degrees in houston today. 24 in miami. a different story out west. dropping to minus 5 in denver. only 1 degree in vancouver with sunny spells. as for europe then, the winter precipitation is targeting the east again for places like poland and belarus and western russia getting substantial amounts of snow, blowing snow as well. down towards the southeast, turkey dealing with more showers, cold rain and snow. but the bulk of europe stays dry and settled. the balkans and central areas and the northwest as well for the british isles, under a high pressure system. there will be more rain for places like portugal and western spain. winds will be pretty strong as well. persistent rain to contend with. 14 degr

state of new mexico. but gibbs said the united states is not interested in words but in actions. he said north korea is not living up to its obligations. >>> a giant christmas decoration has been illuminated by south korea near the border with north korea for the first time in seven years. the north has called the move a provocative act. ♪ the lighting ceremony took place on tuesday evening amid heavy security, attended by around 400 people. the ceremony was an annual event since the 1950s. it was suspended in 2004 under an interkorean agreement to end border propaganda activity. the south korean military's decision to resume the yearly ritual followed last month's shelling of yeonpyeong island by north korea and the sinking of a south korean warship in march. north korea said this is part of the south's psychological warfare and such an irrational provocative act could trigger a new armed conflict. >>> subway authorities in washington have begun random checks of passengers' bags as the u.s. capital steps up security measures for the holiday season. the metro transit system lau

what did you do to make sure that new mexico had an accurate count? >> there great question, because it allows me to go over how we do it. we mailed or delivered questionnairesat is the first he senses. any household could deny return the questionnaire we sent them was followed up in will be called and non-response follow. that amounted to 47 million households. we knocked on those doors repeatedly, we visited as many as six times throughout the process. so the relationship between the male return rate and a complete count is quite fuzzy because we followed up on every household. at the end of this process, for every household. power master address file, we have a resolution. we have a population estimates, of population count through all of our processing and data collection. so the senses, as much as we can know from our operations, is complete in all those areas. >> we have another question from twitter. it is the female to male ratio changing. >> as you can tell from the conference, we have not released counts by gender. we'll do that over the com

they're from santa fe, new mexico. the next category which was the gourmet, exotic, they were from corn maiden, and there was a barbecue chick sxen gouda cheese tomale that won, and then i don't even think i need to say who won the dessert category. >> who made that guava one? >> they are from -- they are from mama's hot tomale cache in los angeles, and those are the guava and cream cheese, and that was unanimous across the board. everybody loved those tomales, and i loved mama's hot tomale cafe. they're actually a training program as well for people trying to get off the street and start a new life, so they train them and how to make tomales and stuff. there's a lot of love put in those too. >> is that all the winners? >> those are all the winners. then the grand tomale winner, was the guava and cream cheese. >> i thought it would be one of the more traditional ones. it really kicked in for everybody. next year we're going to go back. you have tentatively some good names, again, panel of judges, but we're going to sur

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in new mexico, drivers slid and spun out. near the grand canyon, all lanes of i-17 were shut down overnight, stranding drivers in a traffic nightmare. arizona reporting more than 100 accidents in just a three-hour period. >> we know that the weather is going to be bad, but we didn't think it's going to be like that bad. >> reporter: and the winds. ski resorts across the west are reporting hurricane-force gusts. mammoth ski resort in california clocked in at 105 miles an hour. in lake tahoe, wind and snow hampered the search by national guard for missing snowboarder shawnte marie willis. >> it's very unfortunate that we have a sad ending to this. >> reporter: willis' body was found this morning after a three-day search. in california, a day of recovery from the storms. still, a neighborhood in the san joaquin valley was evacuated after a local canal flooded. tens of thousands of homes are without power in southern california. but with storm after storm, these communities remain saturated. residents will spend new year's diggin

hundreds of miles away she was let go in new mexico. and trace is following this. how did they get the suspects? >>trace: the case of the bungling criminals. after the staged accident the kidnappers forked the victim, 54 years old, to go to two different a.t.m.'s and pull out $900. well, after that, one of the kidnappers stayed behind and the others took her to new mexico and the kidnapper who stayed behind is 23-year-old man pulled over by police minutes after this kidnapping for a traffic violation. they got his information, and they let him go but lo and behold the next day when they are investigating this and they look at surveillance video, who do they spot? they spot matthew and they go to his house and he confesses the entire thing. here are the cops. listen. >> i certainly think the traffic stop may have played a part in, certainly, in identifying the suspects involved, or the suspect at this time involved in the kidnapping. >>reporter: he gave police the names of the other suspects. they, in turn, have now turned themselves in to albuquerque police. the f.

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. >>> new mexico is being battered by heavy snowfall. road crews, now working around the clock, for the morning commute in some parts of the state will be a tough one. blizzard conditions are predicted for today in the western and north part of new mexico. temperatures only in the teens, as well. >> no part of the country getting a break. >>> on the roadways, that winter storm in the rockies will make trouble on interstates 15, 25, 70, 94 and 80. the pacific highways still slippery. along the ohio valley, watch out for i-40 and i-75. and foggy around minneapolis and des moines. >> and if you are flying today, expect airport delays in l.a., salt lake, las vegas, phoenix and denver. as well as in minneapolis, chicago and new orleans. >>> well, it seems to be most frustrating to stranded airline passengers, still plenty of them, is the lack of customer service. it all comes at a time for giant profits for the airline industry. >> so, where is all that money going? we asked dan harris to find out. >> reporter: jet blue made $148 million in p

and with me now from santa fe is new mexico governor bill richardson. a former u.n. ambassador, he's been to north korea seven times over the past 16 years, to help free shot down helicopter pilots, recover remains of american servicemen killed during the korean war and to promote nuclear disarmament on the peninsula. and governor, well cook, thanks for joining us on this christmas eve. >> thank you, merry christmas to all of you. >> warner: you're one of the few americans who has history ever meeting with north korean officials on the ground there. what was the atmosphere of the talks this time? what was their attitude? >> well, it was different than in other times in two ways. the first difference was, the state of tension in north korea over the drills and in the entire peninsula was the highest and most negative that i'd ever seen. the second is that there is a new core of north korean officials that i was dealing with in the foreign ministry. in the defense department in the military, and i was encouraged because there was more of a pragmatic streak in this core

and yemeni citizen born in new mexico is on that list and the muslim cleric is considered to be a radical who's inspired a wave of attempted attacks against the u.s. and who serves as a leading english speaking voice for reciting and motivating motivating excuse me terrorists now according to counterterrorism officials he's also become a key operational figure who selects targets and gives orders although these officials have failed to really offer any specifics or proof of that but now comes a new twist to the story the obama administration is considering filing criminal charges against the cleric in case the cia fails to kill him but he really offered to give someone a fair trial after you've already put them on the sas nation list or earlier i caught up with glenn greenwald from salon dot com now in a piece on this topic he used alice in wonderland is a perfect analogy of offering a sentence first and giving a verdict afterward so i ask glenn what he thought the administration was thinking here by making this move and whether we could consider it backtracking. bad. i think what they're

i think some of the best where you used to be in new mexico. they're doing a lot of that. that's correct. and these-these models really recognize the science, that the components of a person's life don't exist in-in a vacuum, nor do the components of a system exist in a vacuum. and recovery really, and frankly prevention as well, really has to do with multiple dimensions at the same time, sustained over time. and so that's the kind of system of care approach. very good. james, i want to go back to, for you to be able to tell us, you have done such a great job of getting individuals, of providing for individuals that second chance. can you tell us about the business that you started and how it's helping individuals that are in recovery? well, the business i started is a company i started, it's called the choice is yours, inc. and that was developed from a conversation with my sponsor on the phone trying to find a name for a company, and he, his frustration with me grew, so he said, "i'm going to bed, james. the choice is yours." and so it came about because of his frustrati

he passed away today in new mexico at the age of 72. when the game was over he would always utter this song. >> turn out the lights, the party is over. they say that all good things must end. >> when you aheard that song, pack it in. don meredith, again, passes at the age of 72. word rumbling around the nfl, alex smith will start at quarterback sunday. smith not effective. smith healthy from a shoulder injury he susspained about a month ago. he had his chance, he will never start again for the 49ers. mike singletary says why not, let's go back to smith. nothing official from the 49ers but that's the word. this kid had to replace mike shanahan. started out winning his first 6 games and then fell in the tank. they are 3-9. he was a part of a illegal videotaping of a 49er practing, so he was fired today in midseason, 5-17 his record. andrew luck will be in new york city. he is one of the four finests for the heisman trophy. that's going to be a lot of fun watching on saturday night. jim, stanford offered him a raise, a 11-1 and as we have

a cnn crew is accompanying new mexico governor bill richardson, who has held talks with north korean officials in the north. it also reported that the north has agreed to negotiate the sale of 12,000 fuel rods and ship them to another country. if the report proves true, it suggests that north korea may be ready to take concrete steps toward denuclearization of the korean peninsula. south korea's foreign ministry has responded cautiously. ministry spokesperson kim young sun said it is as yet unclear what activities north korea will allow the inspectors to carry out. he added south korea needs to take various factors into consideration before it can determine north korea's intentions. >>> that concludes this edition of "newsline." i'm hideshi hara in tokyo. we'll be back in half an hour. thanks for joining us on nhk world.

up to 1 foot of mountain snow in new mexico and colorado. showers in the pacific northwest. >> 40s in seattle and portland. 32 degrees in boise. 13 in fargo. 18 in the twin cities. 26 in detroit. 32 here in new york. 53 in atlanta. 73 in miami. >>> this story's bittersweet. this is the last christmas for one jolly old elf in wisconsin. santas hanging up his suit after 43 years on the job. dick lindour has been bringing smiles to children in local hospitals for four decades. >> he knows what it's like to spend christmas at a quhirns hospital because his own daughter died of leukemia when she was 15. he says when he looks at these children he still sees his beautiful little girl. at age 73 he says it is time for someone else to fill nose black boots and they say the outfit is going to go into the hall of fame in wisconsin. >> great story. we'll be right back, everybody, don't go far. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are switching from tylenol® to advil. to learn more and get your special offer, go to takeadvil.

up to 1 foot of mountain snow in new mexico and colorado. >> a wet 45 in seattle. 32 in boise. 30 in billings. 13 in fargo. 31 in omaha. 28 in indianapolis. 30s in new york and boston. 53 in atlanta. 73 in miami. >>> some architects in houston got in the holiday spirit by testing out their talents on one of the tasty treats of the holiday season. >> they competed in a gingerbread house build-off, putting together intricate and interesting creations. everything on the building is edible down to the stained glass windows on the cathedral, melted from lifesavers. >> the competition was also open to the general public but a team of architects and cheffed joined forces for the very top prize. that would be fun to eat. >> we'll be right back. so whiten your teeth. no coffee. [ female announcer ] crest 3d white toothpaste removes up to 80% of surface stains in just two weeks. hi. [ female announcer ] for a noticeably whiter smile. crest 3d white toothpaste. >>> i recently became an aunt so i know what it's like waiting for information about when th

we kick off with the new mexico bowl. byu and utep, their last bowl win was in 1967. i think that's when alan was born. nine-yard touchdown, 14-0 cougars inch the second heaps, 31-yard. byu up 31-10 he at the half. hoffman, three td grabs. byu blows out utep. >>> humanitarian whole on the smurf turf in boise. illinois out to a fast start. 11-yard. fresno state up seven. the huskies take control. hunter over the middle. the score. niu led 23-10 at the half. and the huskies cruise 40, 17. >> high school football, division 3 state title game. second quarter, cougars up 789-7. ing my get -- miguel to the corner. 16-7. seconds later, the ball comes back. shaw makes the church, -- makes the catch, and he is a mudder. 41 yards to pay dirt. division 2 title game, folsom meeting gardena. first quarter, bull dogs up 7-0. looking for more. 42-yard to the house. and right now in the fourth, folsom leads 41-20. >> a little nba action. the orlando momentum making a run at the nba title. the major -- magic acquired gilbert arenas, and pick up jason richardson and hedo turkoglu. in r

new mexico. -- on the board of the st. new mexico. we did some wonderful things together. we had the opportunity to travel the same weekend. he was such a remarkable man because he was a friend and a thinker. he was thinking all the time about how expansion was the opportunity. in remembrance of him and all of you being here to remember him, i say thank you and enjoy the day. [applause] >> thans, ladonna. you are a great friend of the udall family . my father believed tribes should be given the resources to run their own lives. he appointed the first native american commissioner of indian affairs. his name was bob bennett. [applause] if any of you know my father, he had five brothers and sisters. we are so blessed to have with us today the three surviving siblings. [applause] i know i can speak for all of the grandchildren when i say that we love these folks delayed and will carry their wisdom and love with us forever. please give a warm welcome to bernie. [applause] >> there are six of us. i am the sixth. my two sisters decided to pass, so you will be stuck with me today.

the new mexico governor is in north korea to see if he can reduce tensions through a series of talks. richardson was invited by north korea's envoy. the north said it will strike if the south goes through with a live fire drill on the border island. the governor said he received a formal petition to pardon billy the kid. he set up a website where people can share opinions. some believe he was promised a pardon in return for testimony in a murder trial. he said he will make a decision before he leaves office at the end of the year. >> this morning a new study sai kid who is live near freeways at birth double their risk of autism. researchers in children's hospital los angeles said baby who is live within 1,000 feet of a freeway are at risk. the study suggests kids born around contaminated air are more likely to develop autism. >>> it is a done deal. your taxes will not go up new year a day. congress a proufed president obama's taxdale. >> the motion is adopted. >> the deal prevents the tax hike that would have cost the family $3,000. it gives tax breaks to businesses and clean energy

what did the census do to make sure that new mexico had an accurate count? >> this is a great question. it allows me to go over how we do a census. we do indeed mail out or deliver questionnaires but that is the beginning of the process. you can think of that as the first half of a census. any household that did not return the questionnaire we sent them was followed up in what we call the non-response follow-up status. that amounted to about 57 million households. we knocked on those doors repeatedly. we visited as many as six times throughout the bat process. the relationship between the male return rate and a complete count is quite fuzzy because we follow up on every household. at the end of this process, for every household on our master address file, we have a resolution, we have a population estimate, we have a population count through all our processing and data collection. the census, as much as we can know from our operations, is completed and all those areas. >> thank you. >> we have another question from twittered. is the female to male ratio chan

before finally letting her go more than 500 miles away in new mexico. trace gallagher is following this from our west coast news hub this afternoon. that atm stop proved to be a key mistake for those guys, didn't it. >> it did, shep, because when they forced eileen to the atm two of the suspects riding with her in the red toyota. the third suspect a convicted sex offender was in a separate car. he got pulled over for a traffic violation. he said the people in the red toyota were his cousins driving home his drunk grandmother. they let him go but then they found out about the kidnapping. they also checked the surveillance at the atm, found out that it was her and her car. they paid him another visit. listen. >> i certainly think the traffic stop may have played a part in -- certainly played a part in identifying the suspects involved or the suspect at this present time involved in the offense of kidnapping. >> when police were there, he made a full confession to other two other suspects,urned themselves in to the albuquerque police. >> shepard: the husba

meanwhile, new mexico governor bill richardson is wrapping up a five-day mission to north korea. >>> another busy day ahead for the u.s. senate set to vote on whether to move forward on an arms treaty wit russia. the treaty would put lower limits on each country's supply of strategic nuclear warheads. the senate's republican leader mitch mcconnell opposes the deal concerned it would hamper u.s. missile defense efforts. >> all of a sudden we're once again frying to rush things before christmas eve. i think that was not the best way to get our support. >> barring a setback, we believe we're on the path to victory by the end of the week. >> the debate in the senate is set to resume about two hours from now. >>> it is 5:07. the victims of the san bruno blast unleashed their anger. >> don't tell me one thing and say another thing over and over again. >> the new findings that pg&e took shortcuts with its inspections. >>> and the competition for the america's cup heats up. why san francisco may no longer be a shoein. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> showers are coming down heavy. north bay we are seeing

he is the only television journalist accompanying new mexico governor bill richardson to the region. meanwhile, tension there are worsening. north korea is warning it will launch a military strike against the south if it proceeds with previously scheduled military exercises on a south korean island the north fired on last month. the two countries have been poised potentially on the brink of war, since that deadly attack. now, the u.s. state department says the exercises which are scheduled to begin tomorrow are not meant to be provocative. wolf is on the phone right now. i want to start with you, wolf. essentially tell us what you're doing. it's saturday morning there, i understand. you've been with governor bill richardson. he's met with north korean officials. tell us who they are, what they accomplished. >> reporter: thanks, suzanne. i'm here in pyongyang. it's early saturday morning already. the former u.s. am babassador t the united nations, outgoing governor of new mexico bill richardson, had important meetings friday with the vice minister in charge of foreign affairs with the

continental airlines flight was bound for houston, texas, when pilots were forced to divert to new mexico. the passenger has only been identified as a mexican national who might have been suicidal. f.b.i. and immigration officials met the plane in albuquerque and took him into custody. we were told no passengers were injured. after the arrest the plane continued to houston. >> berkeley police looking for the robber that held up a mcdonald's restaurant this morning, a frightening ordeal for employees. the latest in a string of robberies in that city. theresa garcia is live in the berkeley police department with more. >> this was certainly a bold and a violent crime with one of the mcdonald's employees struck in the head. in fact, this is the ninth in a recent series of crimes here. but this is the only one involving a business. and in this latest one, at least police had a trail of evidence to follow. >> this morning crime scene officers were busy picking up one to $20 bills and even coins from a back alleyway and street behind this north berkeley mcdonald's. this trail of cash marks the g

. >> new mexico governor richardson is in north korea as we speak easing tensions. he tried in pyongyaag today. in an unofficial capacity. while immigration problem runs rampant n his own home staae. @%presentativeeof tte obama administration. korean peninsula.is to see if we >> meantimee we lookkforward to the governor coming hooe to fix probllms of his own here. >> it is the oklahoma skuuk that stole christmas..3 %-children may be in the arbag. dollss trrcks, books, games, sprayed by skunk. rid of the smell before @%ristmas. there is a lesson to be learned hereecommon sense wise. skunks can get at them.ut where >> yeah, now, will they sprry them and tten try to pass them along??33 >> you cannot soak teddy bear inntomato juice, you know what i mean?%i don't now. >> you know what, you have to start over. @% that point. >> yeah, you do. quickly. >> well, tte snow ii passed but vytas is sayinn there is a weekend. >> go straight o him to find out hoo much. when. where, how often ann everything %->> this has bben a bear to track..3 developing over parrs of the deep sout

my commentary on that plus reaction from senator jeff bingaman of new mexico who's get the deal. >>> here's one for you. a group of wishy washy washington types want them to come together so they started a no labels group. what a bunch of garbage. here what it really mean. no conviction whatsoever to see it through. i'm going head to head with one of the founders of this group. >>> and incoming speaker is a weeper of the house. can you imagine if nancy pelosi had started just crying at the drop of a hat? what do you think the right wing talkers of america would have been saying about her? joan walsh and the republicans, their big double standard, we're talking about that. >>> this is the story that has he fired up tonight. at this hour harry reid and his best friend, mitch mcconnell are trying to hammer out a deal to bring the obama tax compromise to a final vote in the senate. they could get it done tonight on the floor. we'll see. the president and any other democrat with their name on this deal, i think they are walking themselves right into an election fight for their lives. repu

mexico, colorado and montana. others came in northeastern states, such as network. states with few mexican immigrants, but instead as a fear that they outlawed cocaine, heroin, morphine, people would turn to marijuana as an alternative. still there was no national law against marijuana, that is until 1937. the 13--year national prohibition against alcohol had ended four years earlier. and led by the head of the federal bureau of narcotics, the country turned its attention to other drugs. in 1936 a film called "reefer madness" dramatized a popular contention around drug law advocates that marijuana use drove dope-smokers to crime and violence. despite opposition from the american medical association, the marijuana tax act of 1937 sailed through congress. after a stunningly short two hours' of committee testimony it came to the floor of the house, where one congressman asked what was all about? speaker same rea burn said, "it has something to do with a thing called marijuana. i think it's a narcotic of some kind." t

the new mexico governor has decided to pass on the towpt to pardon old west outlaw billy the kid. today is richardson's last day in office. the prospect of a pardon for billy the kid was based on a promise by the governor back then. >>> the mayors' office says the announcement is coming up about the america's cup. our next newscast is at 5:00, happy new year. send comments to comments@captioncolorado.com captions by terry james, caption colorado, llc.

after he was taken off the plane in new mexico, that flight continued on into texas. an fbi spokesperson said passengers were never in any danger. the union city man charged with sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl will remain in jail because apparently that's what his attorney wants. here's a look at 36-year-old eugene ramos in court today. during that hearing, his attorney withdrew his request for bail. he stands charged in the attack at a dollar store last week. the prosecutor says although the accused was declared incompetent for a short time in a previous case, that will not be a factor here. >> there's evidence in our case that indicates he was clear seeking and something in the law called specific intent. and wave proof he had specific intent to commit an a sexual assault in this case. >> several town hall forums will focus on california's budget crisis. even though he doesn't take office for three years, brown clearly wants people to understand the severity of the problem which grows daily. today we learned a $25 billion short fall could reach $28 billion. >

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